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Who are Metallica « Result #8 on Feb 27, 2006, 7:21am »
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Metallica is an American heavy metal band formed in October 1981. With 57 million albums sold in the United States (according to RIAA figures), and about 84 million albums sold worldwide, the total number of album sales estimates somewhere between 140-150 million total. Since 1991 with the release of their most successful album yet, Metallica, they have become the most commercially successful heavy metal act in history, as well as the 18th biggest selling act in American music history. RIAA Total Sales
After building a following through its role in the development of modern heavy metal in the mid-1980s, the band broadened its audience in the early 1990s. Accordingly, the band stood as the most commercially visible example of the metal genre for most of that decade. In contrast, Metallica's vastly increased commercial success was accompanied by stylistic changes that fostered accusations of "selling out."
In 2003 Metallica released their 8th studio album, entitled St. Anger, a collection of the most aggressive music they had written in a decade, to deeply divided critical reviews and comparatively mediocre sales figures, though their 2004 "Madly In Anger With The World" tour in support of the album remained very successful.
Metallica has confirmed that they are working on what will be their 9th studio album. The release date is expected to be around either late 2006 or early 2007. The album will be produced by the legendary Rick Rubin.
Metallica is listed at #5 on VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock".
History
Metallica was formed in Downey, California in 1981 by drummer and former tennis prodigy Lars Ulrich and guitarist and vocalist James Hetfield, who met after each had separately placed classified advertisements in the American publication The Recycler. James Hetfield responded to Lars Ulrich's call. Bassist Ron McGovney was an original member, and the band used a few transient guitar players, such as Brad Parker and Jeff Warner. Their first session played was in Lars Ulrich's garage. At that time there were only three members, Lars Ulrich, James Hetfield, and Dave Mustaine. Ron McGovney joined a few days later. Metallica got its name when drummer Lars Ulrich was helping San Francisco-area metal promoter Ron Quintana pick out a name for a new magazine to promote metal and the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal bands. Quintana came up with a suggestion "Metallica," but Lars quickly suggested another and decided to use that name for the band he and James Hetfield had just started.In the beginning, James Hetfield didn't like Lars Ulrich as a drummer.
In early 1982, Metallica recorded "Hit the Lights" for the first Metal Massacre compilation. Guitarist Lloyd Grant was brought in to do the solos on the track but was never a full member of the band. Desperate for a full time lead guitarist, Ulrich posted an ad in the local newspapers. Dave Mustaine from Huntington Beach, California, a guitarist from the band Panic responded, and upon arrival started a sound check. Ulrich and Hetfield were so impressed with Mustaine's warm up and equipment that they asked him to join before actually auditioning. A few months later the band recorded a full demo, No Life 'Till Leather, which quickly drew attention on the underground tape trading circuit. Conflicts with Mustaine eventually caused to McGovney to leave the band, and he was replaced by Cliff Burton from Castro Valley, California, lured from his band Trauma in exchange for the other members of Metallica relocating to the San Francisco area.
Upon arriving in El Cerrito, California, the group quickly built a healthy local following in the Bay Area Thrash Scene via word-of-mouth and live performances. Metallica then traveled to New York in 1983 at the urging of local promoters Jon and Marsha Zazula, and after a few gigs the band signed with the Zazulas' brand new label, Megaforce Records. Megaforce released Metallica's first two albums. Shortly after arriving in New York, Mustaine was fired due to various disruptive, unproductive behaviors all related to alcoholism and other addictions. Kirk Hammett was drafted from Exodus to replace him. Mustaine would go on to create the thrash metal band Megadeth. A pupil of Joe Satriani, Hammett brought to the band a considerably more progressive and technically proficient lead guitar play style than that of Mustaine's, although this would not become apparent until Ride the Lightning, the first album to feature Hammett's songwriting. In this way he greatly changed the band's style and made it much more progressive.
Metallica's first album, Kill 'Em All, set the template that they would follow throughout the 1980s, prominently featuring the heavy vocals and aggressive rhythm guitar of James Hetfield. A year later, the next album, Ride the Lightning, expanded their form with longer songs that featured both instrumental pyrotechnics and lyrics that rose above some of the more puerile songs on Kill 'Em All. Perhaps the most significant feature of Ride the Lightning was the inclusion of "Fade to Black", a slower, more introspective song that mused on the thoughts of someone contemplating suicide. Indeed "Fade to Black" is the first such song in a tradition that would come to include "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" and "One". The inclusion of these slower, introspective songs distinguished Metallica from most other thrash metal bands such as Anthrax, Slayer, and Megadeth.
Some fans saw Metallica's formation as a direct reaction to the prevalent rock and roll music of the early 1980s. Inspired by bands such as Motörhead, Diamond Head (comparing themselves and their sound to a combination of the "epicness" of Diamond Head with the sound of Motörhead in the sleeve notes of 1998's Garage Inc., humorously citing that "two heads were better than one"), and Saxon, the so-called New Wave of British Heavy Metal, as well as hardcore punk like the Misfits and Discharge, Metallica was single-minded in their desire to break the grip of soft metal on heavy metal fans.
After almost three years of touring to support the Black Album, Metallica took a respite until late 1995. On December 13, they recorded during their rehearsal for Lemmy's 50th birthday party; the track "Hero of the Day" and four Motörhead covers were later released as a limited edition CD. The band spent around a year writing and recording new songs, resulting in Load (1996). Due to limitations of CD run-time and the band's reluctance to release a double-album of original material, ReLoad was released in (1997). Some songs written during Load were changed by the time they were recorded for ReLoad; in particular, "Fuel" had different lyrics than the version played during the Load Tour, as evidenced by the version played on the Cunning Stunts concert film (the song was then-titled "Fuel for Fire").
These albums represented a significant musical change for Metallica. The band's breakneck metal tempos and layered guitar compositions had largely been replaced by bluesy rock songs, full of bent notes, warm guitar tones, slide guitar, as well as shuffle rhythms. Hetfield's vocals took a larger role than ever before, and several songs (such as "Mama Said" and "Low Man's Lyric"), broadened Hetfield and the rest of the band's willingness to experiment with various sounds and instruments. These changes included the use of the Steel guitar (most commonly use in country muisc) in "Mama Said", as well as the use of the Hurdy-Gurdy and Violin in Low Man's Lyric. Some fans felt that the intricacy and intelligence of Metallica's songwriting had not necessarily been watered down, but that it had been presented in a radically different - or perhaps a simply more varied - stylistic package. Hetfield noted later in the documentary film Some Kind of Monster that many songs on these two albums were initially thought by the band to be of only average quality, and polished and re-worked repeatedly until judged to be releasable.
By 1996, all of the band members had cut their hair (although Hammett eventually regrew it), which was made the point of ridicule by many people, including band friends Alice in Chains, whose edition of MTV's Unplugged featured, on Mike Inez's bass, the words "friends don't let friends get 'Friends' haircuts." Metallica were in the audience for the taping of the show. Their hair seemed to overshadow their music in press coverage.
Many of the changes on Load and ReLoad had been anticipated by earlier experiments (especially on the Black Album), but listeners generally regard the two albums as the band's turning point. Sales were lower than sales of the previous three albums. Previously rabid fans began to sarcastically refer to the band as "Poptallica" or "Alternica" in light of the band's apparent conformity to more mainstream styles of pop or alternative rock music. Indeed, perhaps because of these musical changes, many songs from Load and ReLoad received extensive radio play, including "Until It Sleeps", "Hero of the Day", "King Nothing", "The Memory Remains", "The Unforgiven II", and "Fuel".
In 1998 Metallica returned briefly to its role as a cover band and compiled a double CD called Garage Inc.. The first CD contained newly recorded tracks, ranging from obvious Metallica influences such as The Misfits, Thin Lizzy and Black Sabbath to more unexpected choices like Nick Cave and Bob Seger (the band's cover of Seger's "Turn the Page" garnered extensive radio airplay). The second CD gathered together previously released covers, including the complete Garage Days Re-Revisited EP, which had, at that point, become a scarce collectors' item. The CD also collected B-side covers going as far back as 1984.
On March 7, 1999, Metallica were inducted into San Francisco Walk of Fame. The mayor of San Francisco, Willie Brown, proclaimed the day "Official Metallica Day" in San Francisco. A month later, on April 21-22, 1999, Metallica recorded two performances with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, then-conducted by Michael Kamen. Kamen, who had previously worked with Bob Rock on "Nothing Else Matters", approached the band with the idea of pairing Metallica's music with a symphony orchestra. Kamen and his staff composed additional orchestral material for a number of Metallica songs and the concerts featured a collection of songs dating as far back as Ride the Lightning. Metallica also wrote two brand-new Kamen-scored songs for the event, "No Leaf Clover" and "− Human." The audio recording and concert footage were released later that year as the album/concert film S&M, in November, 1999, on CD, VHS, VCD, and DVD.
Before they went into the studio to record their next album in 2001, Jason Newsted left the band, ostensibly due to "the physical damage I have done to myself over the years while playing the music that I love." However, subsequent interviews with Newsted and the remaining members revealed that Newsted's desire to release and tour with his Echobrain side-project – and Hetfield's intense resistance to such an idea – was the primary cause of Newsted's departure, as Hetfield believed a release by an individual band member would somehow weaken the band.
This began a low-point in recent Metallica history, as Hetfield soon entered rehab due to "alcoholism and other addictions" in July 2001. For nearly a year, Metallica ceased to function in any meaningful way. Ulrich and Hammett, for the first time, seriously considered the possibility that Metallica might be finished. Upon Hetfield's return, though, the band slowly and cautiously continued as an incomplete 3-piece throughout the writing and recording of their next album. Longtime producer Bob Rock handled bass duties for the sessions. Metallica eventually found a new member in early 2003, bassist Rob Trujillo (ex-Suicidal Tendencies), who was then playing with Ozzy Osbourne's band and touring with Zakk Wylde in Black Label Society (He appears in Black Label Society's DVD Boozed, Broozed, and Broken Boned). In an interesting turn of events, Jason Newsted, who had joined Canadian heavy metal band Voivod, filled Rob's shoes by playing bass for Ozzy during the Ozzfest 2003 tour (which Voivod also supported).
On May 6, 2003, Metallica, with former Ozzy bassist Trujillo (oddly, just after Metallica hired Trujillo, Jason was drafted by Ozzy), played their first show with the new lineup at mtvICON: Metallica, a 90-minute tribute show dedicated to the band. Along with several renditions of older songs performed by various bands (Sum 41 performed a medley of Metallica songs including "For Whom the Bell Tolls", "Enter Sandman" and "Master of Puppets"; Staind performed "Nothing Else Matters"; Avril Lavigne performed "Fuel"; Snoop Dogg performed "Sad But True"; Korn performed "One"; and Limp Bizkit performed "Welcome Home: Sanitarium)", the show had several clips of interviews with the band broadcasting the past history of the band (Newsted provided commentary on certain aspects) and a performance by Metallica to close. Metallica's performance was a montage of songs as well, loosely chronicling their history; beginning with "Hit the Lights", and continuing with "Enter Sandman", "Blackened", "Creeping Death" and "Battery." After a brief speech, the band ended with the debut of "Frantic".
In June 2003, Metallica released their eighth full-length studio album, St. Anger. The album debuted at number one on the album charts, heralded as the band's most aggressive album in over a decade. Metallica seemed to have recorded an intentionally raw and unpolished album as a response to critics' complaints that they had lost their edge. Harsh criticism from fans followed, however, for the record's underproduced sound (notably Hetfield's "flexible" sense of pitch), Ulrich's new signature steel snare drum, overwrought songs, and no guitar solos whatsoever (a rarity for Metallica). Despite the criticism, Metallica won a Grammy in 2004 for St. Anger; this being the band's seventh such award. The documentary Some Kind of Monster followed the album and offered an inside view into the daily affairs of Metallica as never before. While the film focused on the growing tensions within the band, it fulfilled its actual purpose in that it forced an album to be made. The film also exposed to fans that Metallica had sought the guidance of a psychiatrist to deal with a vast amount of the band's inner turmoil. Metallica abruptly and unfeelingly ditched the psychiatrist near the end of the documentary.
Having toured extensively for two years in support of St. Anger on the Madly In Anger With The World Tour (in which nearly every performance was professionally recorded and sold on LiveMetallica.com) Metallica took a break from performing and spent most of 2005 amongst their friends and families.
On September 20, 2005, Metallica went to the studio to record their voice parts for their appearance in an upcoming episode of The Simpsons. The episode will air in May 2006.
Metallica played two shows with the Rolling Stones in their hometown of San Francisco on November 13, 2005 and November 15, 2005. Metallica opened both nights and the concert was held at SBC Park. At these gigs the band played "Orion" which was last played in full back in 1986 at Cliff Burton's funeral.
Recently on their website, Metallica announced they are working on new material for their new album which should be out around 2006/2007.
On January 11th, 2006, Metallica officially stated that they will be playing their very first shows in South Africa on March 18-25, 2006. This marks the first time they will play on the African continent. Metallica will be side by side with such international hit artists as Collective Soul, Seether, Simple Plan, Fat Boy Slim, and others.
The band themselves will make an appearance in the independent film The Darwin Awards, starring Joseph Fiennes, Winona Ryder, David Arquette, Julianna Margulies, Tim Blake Nelson, Juliette Lewis, the late Chris Penn, and others. Metallica also played at a private party for the premier of The Darwin Awards at the Sundance Film Festival on January 25th, 2006.
According to MetOnTour.com Metallica will be performing in Dublin, Ireland on June 11th as part of their "Escape from the Studio Tour '06", an event that hasn't taken place since its very first time back in 1995 during the recording and songwriting sessions of the Load/ReLoad era. It is reported that James Hetfield confirmed this date as well as a date in Castle Donington, England for the Download Festival during a radio interview. Other dates announced include June 3rd & 4th in Germany for the Rock Am Ring and and Rock Im Park festivals, respectively, and June 8 in Arnhem, Holland. Additional dates have yet to be added.
On Thursday, February 16th, 2006 Metallica announced on their official website, that after an over 15 year relationship, Bob Rock will not be recording the next Metallica album. Rock had produced every Metallica release since 1991, beginning with their smash hit album Metallica. His place will be taken by legendary producer Rick Rubin, who has collaborated with famous artists such as Red Hot Chili Peppers, Weezer, Audioslave, Slipknot, System Of A Down, Johnny Cash, and Slayer.
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Who are Slipknot? « Result #9 on Feb 27, 2006, 7:15am »
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Slipknot is a nine-piece musical group from Des Moines, Iowa. There is a debate concerning the group's musical genre, with fans generally classifying them as alternative metal and detractors generally classifying them as nu metal. Aside from their real names, members of the band are also referred to by numbers 0 through 8.
Slipknot is currently one of the more popular musical groups of the contemporary music scene, with violent stage performances, and music which is perceived as extreme in comparison with other bands in the mainstream market. Their albums and home videos have achieved Platinum-sales status, with Grammy indications in the "Best Heavy Metal" and "Best Hard Rock" categories for songs from all three of their albums. They recently won the 2006 Grammy for Best Metal Performance, with their song 'Before I Forget'.
The band is also known for its peculiar image: the members wear matching uniform jumpsuits (most of which have UPC barcodes printed on them) and each has a unique mask. They change masks after every studio album, although the masks rarely have any major changes in them. Some members have several masks for each time period.
Initally the members had a desire to remain mysterious, and preserve their secret identities, refusing to be photographed maskless, even to the point of conducting interviews or posing with fans while wearing their masks (or at least obscuring their faces in some other way). However, today most members of the band have now been openly photographed without their masks, largely as the result of their work in other, non-Slipknot bands:
* vocalist Corey Taylor and guitarist James Root appear unmasked when working with their band Stone Sour * drummer Joey Jordison appears unmasked with his side-project the Murderdolls * percussionist Shawn Crahan appears unmasked with his band To My Surprise * Sid Wilson works unmasked when performing as DJ Starscream [1] * guitarist Mick Thomson appeared unmasked in a Total Guitar magazine shoot * bassist Paul Gray's face was revealed in a police mugshot leaked through The Smoking Gun.
In the video for "Before I Forget" they performed without their masks; however, the band members' faces are shown only as brief glimpses (mainly close-up shots on their eyes), with the camera focused mainly on their hands and instruments.
History
Slipknot's first songs were composed in 1992, during what is referred to by the band members as the "Basement Sessions", conducted in the basement of Anders Colsefini, co-founder of the band. Many of the songs on Mate.Feed.Kill.Repeat and some that were added to later albums were written during these sessions. Crahan being one of the founders came up with the idea on having three drummers; one that keeps the group together, and two to give a wall of sound. Before Joey Jordison joined, Crahan was the lead drummer.
They achieved a stable line-up in 1995, and released a demo entitled Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat on halloween in 1996. The demo was well-received, and after they won a battle of the bands, beating soon-to-be-vocalist Corey Taylor's group Stone Sour, a few major record labels became interested in the group. At that time, the band contained 5 members, but Roadrunner Records didn't want to sign them at first, feeling that the lead singer needed some work. With that said Slipknot went out to find a new lead singer, and push Anders to percussion. Eventually they hired Corey Taylor.
Roadrunner Records eventually signed the band, and released their self-titled debut album, Slipknot, in June of 1999, produced by Ross Robinson. Despite receiving little airplay, the album sold relatively well, due mainly to word-of-mouth. Regarding the album, one reviewer wrote "You thought Limp Bizkit was hard? They're the Osmonds. (Slipknot) are something else entirely. And it's pretty impressive." [2] The band's fanbase also increased subsequent to their performances on the 1999 Ozzfest.
2001's Iowa, the follow-up to their debut album, was anticipated by fans and debuted at number three on the Billboard Magazine album charts and at number one on the UK album chart. They again toured extensively to promote the release. The band also appeared as themselves in the concert scene of the 2002 movie Rollerball, starring Jean Reno, where they played the song "I Am Hated" from Iowa.
After a hiatus of close to two years, the band regrouped in late 2003 and began writing and recording with renowned producer Rick Rubin, who had previously worked with artists such as Johnny Cash, Beastie Boys, Grinspoon, Pennywise and Slayer. The band released their third album, Vol. 3 (The Subliminal Verses) in May 2004. Reviews were mostly positive. New Musical Express noted, "At least two thirds of it is still comprised of head-spinning speed metal, but there are signs of genuine progression, not to mention progressive rock, from the off." It debuted at #2 on the Billboard albums chart.
A live album recorded from shows in Phoenix, Las Vegas, Osaka, Singapore & Tokyo was released in November 2005 titled 9.0: Live. Several members of the band also collaborated with other artists on the Roadrunner United: The All Star Sessions CD released in October 2005. They also appeared in cartoon form in the adult comic Viz (issue 152, Feb 2006), where they appear singing "People = Shit" at the end of the "Mrs Brady, Old Lady" strip.
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Who are the Foo Fighters? « Result #10 on Feb 27, 2006, 7:10am »
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Foo Fighters are a rock group formed by musician Dave Grohl in 1995. They are named after the World War II term "foo fighter", used to refer to mysterious aerial phenomena.
Foo Fighters have earned a strong worldwide following, and have scored a number of hit songs, including "This Is a Call", "Everlong", "Learn to Fly", "All My Life", "Times Like These", "Best of You", and "DOA". On top of their five studio albums, they have also contributed to several movie soundtracks, including the song "The One" on the 2002 Orange County soundtrack and the song "Walking After You" on the 1998 The X Files soundtrack.
History Foo Fighters began as a studio solo project for Grohl while he was a member of the hugely popular group Nirvana. Unbeknownst to most of Nirvana's fanbase, Grohl had gradually written a stockpile of songs that he had held back from the band for fear of ruining their chemistry.
Following Kurt Cobain's death, Grohl entered Robert Lang's Studio in Seattle with friend/producer Barrett Jones to put many of his new and old songs to tape. With the exception of a guitar part on "X-Static" by Greg Dulli of the Afghan Whigs, Grohl played every instrument and sang every vocal on the tracks. Lured to Capitol Records by former Nirvana A&R (and then-Capitol president) Gary Gersh, Grohl had the demo recordings professionally mixed, and the results became the Foo Fighters' self-titled debut album.
However, Grohl didn't want the Foo Fighters to be a one-man studio project, so he worked to try to put together a band. Initially, former bandmate Krist Novoselic was a main candidate for the band, but both became concerned that it might portray Foo Fighters as a reincarnation of Nirvana. Having heard through the grapevine about the disbanding of Seattle-based Emocore band Sunny Day Real Estate, Grohl drafted SDRE's bass player, Nate Mendel, and drummer, William Goldsmith. Pat Smear, who was an "unofficial member" of Nirvana after the release of In Utero, was added as a second guitarist, completing the band.
The band's first single "This Is a Call" was released in June of 1995, and their eponymous debut album was released the next month to enthusiastic fan response. "I'll Stick Around" and "Big Me" were released as singles in the months that followed.
After touring through the spring of 1996, the now full band Foo Fighters entered a Seattle studio with producer Gil Norton to record the band's second album. However, conflict erupted between Grohl and Goldsmith, resulting in Goldsmith's decision to leave the band. The band regrouped in Los Angeles and almost completely re-recorded the album with Grohl on drums. The album, The Colour and the Shape, was released on May 20, 1997.
In need of a drummer, Grohl contacted Alanis Morissette's touring drummer Taylor Hawkins to see if he could recommend anybody. Grohl was surprised when Hawkins volunteered himself. Hawkins made his Foo debut in time for the album's release.
In September of 1997, in front of a crowded street outside the MTV Video Music Awards, Pat Smear simultaneously announced his departure from the band and introduced his replacement, former Scream guitarist Franz Stahl (Grohl had earlier played in Scream). Prior to the recording of the band's third album There Is Nothing Left to Lose, Stahl departed the band, citing creative differences. The band auditioned a number of potential guitarists, eventually settling on Chris Shiflett, who previously performed with 22 Jacks and No Use for a Name. Shiflett initally joined the band as touring guitarist, but achieved full-time status prior to the recording of the group's fourth album.
Before the release of There Is Nothing Left to Lose, Capitol president Gary Gersh was forced out of the label. Given Grohl's history with Gersh, the Foo Fighters' contract had included a key main clause that allowed them to leave the label upon Gersh's departure. They subsequently left Capitol and signed to RCA. (Gersh eventually joined forces with former Nirvana manager John Silva to form GAS Entertainment, a company that manages the Foo Fighters and other artists such as Jimmy Eat World, Beck, and the Beastie Boys.)
One notable moment in the band's history came in 2000 when American late-night talk show host David Letterman invited the Foo Fighters to perform on his first show after undergoing heart bypass surgery, where the band played "Everlong". Letterman introduced them by proclaiming, "My favorite band, playing my favorite song".
Near the end of 2001, the band reconvened to record their fourth album. After spending four months in a Los Angeles studio completing the album, Grohl spent some time helping the Queens of the Stone Age complete their 2002 album Songs for the Deaf. Once the Queens of the Stone Age album was finished, Grohl, inspired by the sessions, decided to reconvene the Foo Fighters to rework a few songs on their album. Instead, they completely re-recorded the album in a ten-day stretch at Grohl's studio in Virginia. The final album was released in October of 2002 under the title One by One. (Hawkins jokingly refers to the first version of the album as the "Million Dollar Demos".)
For most of its history, the Foo Fighters chose to stay away from the political realm. However, in 2004, upon learning that George W. Bush's presidential campaign was using "Times Like These" at rallies, Grohl decided to lend his public support to John Kerry's campaign. Grohl attended several Kerry rallies and occasionally performed solo acoustic sets. The entire band eventually joined Grohl for a performance in Arizona coinciding with one of the presidential debates. Grohl later cited his experiences with the Kerry campaign as inspiration for the title of their next album.
The band's most recent album was a double LP, In Your Honor, released on June 14, 2005. To record the album, the band shifted to Los Angeles and built a recording studio, dubbed Studio 606. Grohl said that the two-disc release – one full of rock songs, the other featuring acoustic tracks – was a perfect memorial for band's 10th anniversary. Grohl hinted about the release in an interview with NME magazine: "It's really amazing. The good thing about doing it is that you split it up so that there's no middle ground. So the rock stuff is the most rocking stuff we've ever worked on, ever."
One highlight on the acoustic part of the set is a song called "Friend of a Friend", which has a surprisingly long history. Grohl wrote the song in 1990, basing it on his initial impressions of Cobain and Novoselic after joining Nirvana. He recorded the song in 1990, and included it on an informal collection of songs (called Pocketwatch) released on cassette in 1992 under the pseudonym "Late!". The version on In Your Honor is very similar to the original recording (albeit more polished), with Grohl simply accompanying himself on acoustic guitar.
During promotion of In Your Honor, Grohl had the chance to feed his fascination with UFOs when the Foo Fighters performed a show in a hangar at the Roswell International Air Center in Roswell, New Mexico. The Roswell International Air Center is the site of the former Roswell Army Air Field, where the fragments of the supposed alien crash landing in 1947 were stored. (Grohl named his label Roswell Records for the incident.) Grohl commented after the show that he wished he had had a chance to examine what was being stored inside the hangar.
The future of the band seems unpredictable. While doing press for In Your Honor, Grohl has been quoted as saying that he'd like to go out on a high, and that In Your Honor might be that high. However, he's also said that he could see the Foo Fighters go on for years. Other ideas thrown out during recent press have included a possible box set including b-sides and covers recorded over the years, as well as RCA/BMG's desire to release a Greatest Hits album covering the band's career.
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